Center Individual Letters Visually Regardless Of Whether They Are Capital Or Lowercase

So I need to make circles that each have a single letter in them and I'm looking to center the letters. There is however a difference in how they get centered when I use letters wi

Solution 1:

A javascript solution. I've broken down the lowercase letters in to three different types: standard lowercase, below the line, and tall letters. I'm targeting them using ASCII codes and adding CSS classes and changing margin-top accordingly. You could add in some more exceptions accordingly (the letter j might need to come down a pixel.)

Here is a pen.

$('span').each(function(){
    var letter = $(this).text();
    var letterCode = letter.charCodeAt(0);
  //check if lowercaseif (letter == letter.toLowerCase()){
   $(this).addClass('lowercase');
  }
    if (letterCode == 106 || letterCode == 112 || letterCode == 113 || letterCode == 121 || letterCode == 103 ){ //jpqyg
      $(this).addClass('below-line');
}
  //All these other letters : bdfikltif(letterCode == 98 || letterCode == 100 || letterCode == 102 || letterCode == 105 || letterCode == 107 || letterCode == 108 || letterCode == 116){
    $(this).addClass('tall-letters');
  }
});

div {
  align-items: center;
  display: flex;
  font-family: sans-serif;
  justify-content: center;
  border-radius: 50%;
  height: 30px;
  width: 30px;
  border: 1px solid black;
  float: left;
}
span{
  margin-top: 0;
}
.lowercase{
  margin-top: -3px;
}
.below-line{
    margin-top: -6px;
}
.tall-letters{
  margin-top: -1px;
}

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